Club Confused
POSTED BY: KaySky
UPDATED: Thursday, March 31, 2005 04:54
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thatweirdgirl wrote:
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*snort* That is so cute! hardcore fans...The Land Before Time. You know what my fave animated film is....Aristocats. No idea why. Just is.
Hey I love the Aristocrats!!! Personally I think it's because of the hand drawn quality - it gives it so much more character. Those Jazzing cats are hilarious. If you look at the backgrounds to this film they have these beautiful expressive lines and strokes... Just works for me.
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KaySky wrote:
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Here's another dish of confused business...
Why is it that when I put a pair of socks into the wash and by the time I pull all the clothes out of the dryer, I only have a single sock? Is there a one-footed lint monster who likes to steal socks? And if there is, why doesn't he just take both? Sure he's only got one foot, but if he takes both, he'd have an extra pair.
Why do I think about these things?
ahh perhaps one of lifes great modern mysteries - what would ol' Socrates of done with this little conundrum? Of course being a resident of ancient Greece he hadn't the need for socks!!! Simpler times.... (You ever think he lost his Toga and sandles in the wash?)
Anyway Pres of the Confussed club may I dare suggest that perhaps you didn't actually put both socks into the washing machine... you ever notice how sometimes when you go back into the bedroom you find one lone sock on the floor - missing it's mate?.. Maybe this little bugger squeezed itself out of the pile of clothes not wanting to be washed - desperately trying to make its back to the laundry basket....Hmmm ?
...And there you were ready to blame the poor one footed lint monster!!!! Pah!! They get such a bad wrapp!!! It's the boxer-short theif fiend I'm trying to catch!
Now... why do I think of these things :)
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Originally posted by zoid:
P.S.
I see castles and cats in passing cumulus clouds, all the time.
Yeah me too - that's what life is all about. Magic!!!
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Originally posted by needleseye:Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:Quote:... I think guys prefer the auburn and russet tresses of the world.
Originally posted by KaySky:
On the subject of men, do they really like blonds better?
I wanted to say, been a red head before.
It's a man magnet.
Also, I was once in the presence of an indepth conversation by several men commenting that they would all prefer auburn/red over blonde.
- er where you a red head at the time?
Personally I've never had a preference. I've certainly not been attracted to someone on the strength of their hair colour. I know us guys are supposed to be all very simple and shallow, but I have no friends who think this way either.....
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Originally posted by zoid:
Did any of y'all ever see anything in them?
I never could see anything either. Those things just frustrated me.
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
ahh perhaps one of lifes great modern mysteries - what would ol' Socrates of done with this little conundrum? Of course being a resident of ancient Greece he hadn't the need for socks!!! Simpler times.... (You ever think he lost his Toga and sandles in the wash?)
Anyway Pres of the Confussed club may I dare suggest that perhaps you didn't actually put both socks into the washing machine... you ever notice how sometimes when you go back into the bedroom you find one lone sock on the floor - missing it's mate?.. Maybe this little bugger squeezed itself out of the pile of clothes not wanting to be washed - desperately trying to make its back to the laundry basket....Hmmm ?
...And there you were ready to blame the poor one footed lint monster!!!! Pah!! They get such a bad wrapp!!! It's the boxer-short theif fiend I'm trying to catch!
Well, I haven't found any lone socks on my floor. They seem to like to hang out in pairs. Maybe the boxer-short theif wanted to switch up his diet and is eating my socks.
I guess there is only one thing left to do: install a security camera inside the washing machine and dryer.
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The monster under my bed is very friendly.
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Originally posted by needleseye:
I just wonder what ratio of kids get into arguments with parents about candy at the check out. Would it make store owners quit putting it there? Nah!
I'm sure candy companies and store owners have some sort of arragnement. They both want to make money and targeting yelling, screaming, bratty kids seems to be profitable.
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Originally posted by needleseye:
On the confusion topic...
Why do people let their children stand up in shopping carts or leave the kid in the cart and just walk off. Theres little signs on every cart that says do not leave child unattended, standing, etc.
Where's the common sense?
Oooh!! Oooh!! I know this one!
I'm the father of two girls (3 1/2 years and 15 months) and I can tell you that you quite simply have to pick your battles. Now, while I never (ok, read this really really rarely) walk more than a few steps from the girls when they are in a shopping cart, it would take forever and a day and a heckuvalot of fighting to keep one or both girls in place and not screaming at the top of their lungs and to keep them in the proper position in a cart. My little one has never, since she was big enough to sit in the proper cart sitting position, stayed there (which is also why I gave up on high-chairs in restaurants early). After half a dozen times of browsing the shelves in the grocery store while I had a hand on the cart, only to turn back to her and find her STANDING, teetering about to fall to the ground, I learned that for my girl it was much safer to put her in the cart. (and yes, that's WITH the little lap belt in place). These days I usually just stick both girls in the cart so they can amuse each other and I can actually get some shopping done before the store closes.
And yes, I could probably fight with her to keep her in the seat until I'm done shopping, but at that point my ear-drums (and all the other shoppers') would be bleeding from the screaming and the nerves would be frayed. YOU MUST PICK YOUR BATTLES. Its the only way to deal. I have lots of other things I'm extremely particular about and will fight with the kids over until they are blue in the face, but I pick the battles worth winning.
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Originally posted by needleseye:
AND why is it where ever you go to the store theres candy at the register. I decided that store management just wants little kids to get in trouble. Kids cry and say they want the candy, parents get mad at them, argument ensues. I just wonder what ratio of kids get into arguments with parents about candy at the check out. Would it make store owners quit putting it there? Nah!
Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)
Ok. Now this one is simple. The management counts on the impulse buys and parents who are willing to give in to the kids to keep them quiet. This gets back to the above choosing your battles and is an example of where I will not give in. Actually, I find it kinda works in my favor. Its amazing how much faster they will get you checked out if you have kids screaming. Actually, for that reason itself I rarely have to argue with my kids about candy. They know I won't give it to them. Now, my wife on the other hand....
- Leto_V
"Well, my days of not taking you
seriously are certainly coming to
a middle." - Mal
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Originally posted by zoid:
On a lighter note ('though not entirely unrelated to my not understanding hatred, I think):
Remember those pictures of random noise that (supposedly) had 3D pictures of trains or teapots encoded in them? You were supposed to stand 3-4 feet back and unfocus your vision -- or focus on a point a foot behing the image -- and then you'd see this bird or beagle materialize out of the random dots and blobs. These monstrosities were all the rage in the malls about 10(?) years ago, based on the original work by Tomás de Torquemada. (NB: You can probably still get them at Spencer Gifts or head shops.)
Well, I never saw anything except dots and blobs, no matter what I tried, and I gave up on the effort altogether after about 20 minutes of fruitless visual contortions. I'm convinced the whole thing was a cruel hoax and that anyone who said they could see the kittens or kites (oohing and ahhing all the while) was only afraid of being labeled a boob for not seeing them. Kind of like the Emperor's clothing that only the truly enlightened could see.
I am either the little boy who proclaimed the Emperor nude or the boob, I guess. Did any of y'all ever see anything in them?
Illusionally,
zoid
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I see castles and cats in passing cumulus clouds, all the time.
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Oh, I love those things. I used to have fun looking at them and after getting a good vision of what they are supposed to look like, focus twice as far through them. Usually it would resolve into something all twisted and distorted, but still just as crisp an image as the original. Reminds me of the failures of transportation devices in the Fly or Galaxy Quest.
Although, what really makes those things easier is the ones where they put a pair of black dots at the top. You could just let your eyes focus them until the dots were super-imposed on each other and the image was there. Not that common an aid though. I probably had it easy with those things though. For as long as I can remember I've always had fun crossing my eyes or focusing through things to superimpose them. Like the game where you put your hands fingertip to fingertip in a straight line and the let your eyes turn them into little disembodied fingers hanging in the air as you move your hands apart.... ahh good times... (its a miracle I neither need glasses or havn't lost my sight altogether)
- Leto_V
"Well, my days of not taking you
seriously are certainly coming to
a middle." - Mal
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Zoid: I think that there is a certain amount of xenophobia that is hard-wired into humans,
handed down from early tribal survival that required that one be racially intolerant, and suspicious of strangers.
Certainly now, when the Earth has become so small, you would think that people would try harder to over come this feeling/reaction...
Religious intolerance always strikes me as the most indefensible,
but you find it all over the world...
everyone wants to believe that they know the truth,
and their truth has to be shoved down the throat of the unenlightened....
What are you going to do?
Tom Lehrer always made the ironic joke about hating intolerant people.
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this is one convoluted thread:
I had waist length red hair in college...
but it only seemed to attract men I didn't want,
the guys I dated found the long hair annoying...
And I have a terrible time resisting the candy at the check out counter,
but I know every time I give in a buy a piece
I am reinforcing the store's reason for putting it there!
What other random topics are we discussing?
I guess I'm just getting confused.
Have a great day,
Maribeth (embers)
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